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Globalization, Returns to Accumulationa and the World Distribution of Output

Beaudry, Paul - 2004

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross …

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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

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On the Geography of Global Value Chains

Antràs, Pol - 2017

specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …

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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions : Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

Schwarz, Michael - 2009

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...

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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model

Berman, Eli - 2008

Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...

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What We Spend and What We Get : Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2001

In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries. Crime is pervasive and varies substantially across...

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The Size and Scope of Government : Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians

Persson, Torsten - 1998

We try to demonstrate how economists may engage in research on comparative politics, relating the size and composition of government spending to the political system. A Downsian model of electoral competition and forward-looking voting indicates that majoritarian -- as opposed to proportional --...

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Openness, Country Size and the Government

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

This paper shows that smaller countries have larger public sectors as a share of GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up

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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

Desmet, Klaus - 2018

This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...

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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World

Chen, Cuicui - 2016

expected. International public goods are particularly challenging because of the strong asymmetries among nations. We identify … critical international public good. Having examined the Nordhaus Climate Club proposal, we test the Alliance/Nash Equilibrium …

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